The marzipan cane experiment introduced me to the concept of bullseye canes.

To make a bullseye cane I discovered that you need to be able to blend at least two colours together - the modellers call it a Skinner Blend.

The modellers use a pasta machine for this, but I don't have one so I decided that I'd give it a go with a rolling pin instead - and it worked really well!

Start with at least two sausages of sugarpaste in different colours (I'm doing some dark brown sandwiched between two paler browns)

Now I start rolling it out - in one direction only, along the sausages to lengthen them out into big long stripes

Once the stripes are too long for my board, I fold them over, keeping the stripes lined up. Make sure you brush off the excess icing sugar or you'll dry out the sugarpaste and it won't  stick together (if you do this, very, very lightly brush on some water - just a tiny bit to make it stick again)

Keep rolling it out - always in the same direction as the stripes - then folding, rolling, folding, rolling until the colours have blended together nicely. It took me about five rolls and folds.

As you can see - where there was more of a mismatch when folding it's spread out the blend. This isn't a bad thing at all, and actually speeds up the process quite a bit.